Button fastener



W Feb. 16, 1932. B AUsTlN 1,845,737

BUTTON FASTENER Filed March 25, 1931 EXW/"TK ing drawings which illustrate Patented Feb. 16, 1932 PATENT orr ca BERT H; AUSTIN, F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA BUTTON FASTENEB Application filed March 23, 1981. Serial No. 524,483.

My invention relates generally to buttons and more particularly to button fastening or securing means and the principal object of my invention is, to provide a relatively simple, practical and inexpensive fastener that may be easily and quickly applied to all buttons having thread openings and which fastening means will enable the button to which it is applied to be easily and quickly secured to or removed from wearing apparel or any article that employs buttons and buttonholes as a means for providing a readily detachable connection.

A further object of my invention is, to

- provide a button fastener that employs a small safety pin and which pin is firmly secured to a base plate and the latter being se cured to the button by means of small prongs or fingers that pass through the thread holes in the button and clamp over the material in the body of the button between the thread holes.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts that will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a button that is equipped with my improved attaching means.

Fig. 2 1s a view looking against the underside of a button and showing my improved H attaching means applied thereto.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational View of a button and the button attaching means.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 4.-% of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a view of the blank section of sheet metal that is utilized for connecting the pin to the body of the button.

Referring by numerals to the accompanya practical embodiment of my invention, 10 designates a button of the type generally used on wearing apparel and which may be formed of shell.

glass, porcelain, metal or any other suitable 5 material and formed through said button adsides of said plate at a point intermediate its ends, are prongs or fingers 13, which pass through the openings 11 and theends of said prongs or fingers are bent toward each other over that portion of the body of the button that lies between the openings 11. Thus the plate'12 is firmly secured to the body of the button. i

If desired the exposed faces of the fingers or prongs 13, that project through the openings 11, may be enameled or colored to conform with the color of the button and if desired these exposed surfaces may be provided with diagonal scored lines so as to simulate thread.

Formed integral with the sides of plate thereby providing a firm bearing'for the metal plate12 and counteracting any tend.- ency of the button to rock upon the plate 12 as a result of unequal pulling strains that may be applied to the button while the same is in service.

Projecting laterally from the end portions of the plate 12 are short ears 15 which are bent upwardly and clamped around the shank portion 16 of a safety pin and which shank portion lies directly upon the face of plate 12. y

In order to increase the stability of the pin and to cause the same to retain its fixed position upon the plate 12,that portion of the shank 16 between the clamping ears 15 is bent laterally in opposite directions so as to provide a waved or compound curved portion that bears directly on the face of the plate 12.

One end of the shank of the pin that projects beyond the clamping ears 15, at one end its of the plate, is bent outwardly at right angles to form a hook 17 that receives the pointed end of the pin and at the opposite end of the plate the wire from which the pin is formed is bent to form a coil 18 that imparts to the outer pointed portion of the pin a certain degree of resiliency.

To secure the button to a garment or the like, it is only necessary to pass the outer portion of the safety pin through a portion of the garment and then engage the pointed end of said pin in the hook 17 and thus the button is positioned for use.

Plate 12 and the lateral extensions 14 have a firm bearing directly against the rear face of the body of the button and the prongs or fingers 1'3 firmly secure said plate to the but ton and the clamping ears 15 at the ends of the plate firmly, engage and hold the rear portion of the safety pin.

My improved button fastener is relatively simple in construction, may be easily and 'cheaply produced and is capable of being easily and quickly attached to or removed from a garment or the like.

It will be understood that minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts of my improved button fastener may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a button having thread openings, of a plate positioned against the rear side of said button, prongs projecting from the sides of said plate through the thread openings in said but-ton, a safety pin having one of its shanks arranged on said plate, said plate having bearing ears between said rear side of the button and said shank and adapted to lie flat against the rear side of said button, clampinghooks projecting from the ends of said plate and adjacent said bearing ears and engaging around the shank of the safety pin that lies on said plate and that portion of the shank of the pin between said clamps being bent to form a compound curve.

2. The combination with a button having thread openings, of a plate positioned against the rear side of said button, prongs projecting from the sides of said plate through the thread openings in the button, bearing ears projecting laterally from the sides of the plate adjacent to and onopposite sides of said prongs and means on the plate for securing'a safety pin to said plate.

3. The combination with a button having thread openings, of a plate positioned against the rear side of said button, prongs projecting from the sides of said plate through the thread openings in the button, bearing ears projecting laterally frointhe sides of the plate adjacent to said prongs and bearing against the rear side of the button, a safety pin having one of its shanks positioned on said plate and clamping ears projecting from the ends of said plate around the shank of said safety pin.

4. The combination with a button and a safety pin which button is provided with thread openings, of a plate arranged on the rear side of the button, means projecting from said plate through the thread openings in the button and means on the ends of said plate for clamping one of the shanks of the safety pin and bearing means between said shank and the rear side of said button for firmly securing the plate to the button.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

- BERT AUSTIN.- 

